Nirbhaya Gangrape Convicts Hanged To Death, Parents Says Finally Justice Delivered
Mumbai: In a huge development, all four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case was hanged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail at 5:30 am on Friday, revoking the death warrant. Three times on various grounds in the last two-and-a-half months.
They were hanged at 5:30 pm as per schedule. The three-judge bench of the Supreme Court in the late-night hearing rejected the final plea of the convicts AP Singh to ban his execution.
The executioner, Pawan, who arrived in Tihar Jail on Tuesday, three days before the execution and conducted the necessary dummy hangings, pulled the liver at the scheduled time.
The victim’s parents – mother Asha Devi and father Badrinath Singh – were hanged, stating that their daughter finally got justice, after more than seven years she was brutally killed in a moving bus in the national capital.
Delhi: Badrinath Singh, father of 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim shows victory sign, says, “Today is our victory and it happened because of media, society & Delhi police. You can understand what is inside my heart by my smile”.
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Asha Devi, mother of 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim says, “As soon as I returned from Supreme Court, I hugged the picture of my daughter and said today you got justice”.
Our daughter is no more & won’t return. We started this fight after she left us, this struggle was for her but we will continue this fight in future for our daughters. I hugged my daughter’s picture & said ‘finally you got justice’
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A Delhi court had on March 5 issued a death warrant for four convicts – Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh. In Tihar Jail.
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The jail administration woke up the four convicts, who were kept in four separate chambers under tight security, at 3.30 pm, according to the jail manual, two hours before the time of hanging. The four had spent a restless night.
The four convicts, along with two others including Ram Singh and a juvenile, had raped and brutally tortured a 23-year-old paramedic student on a moving bus in south Delhi on the night of December 16, 2012. The victim died a few days later after battling for life at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital and later at a Singapore hospital.
Hundreds of people gathered outside Tihar Jail on Friday, holding placards and banners and shouting slogans in support of the hanging of the culprits. Security was tightened outside the prison. The case took place across the country, especially in Delhi, where a large number of people came out on the streets, demanding justice for the victim, who was named ‘Nirbhaya’ or Nirbhaya.
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